Most of the poems used as examples in the various pages here were found on several sites, each of which is distinguished in its own ways. These include The Poet's Corner, The Poetry Archive, and Bartleby Verse.
--Try Sam
Schuman's "slide" sequence for a good basic introduction to metrics
--Robert
Canary's page on basic prosody
--
pages on prosody by Professor Allan Burns of Southern Illinois
University provide an excellent introduction to the most important elements
of versification
--best website devoted
to poetic prosody is Versification
--here is a comprehensive
Glossary
of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY
--a site with many
good links and some unreliable ones
--a long list
of poetry links of mixed value (many expired or invalid)
--best general directory
of its kind is Jack
Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net
--The
Poetry Porch includes a variety of links and resources
--Rhythm
and Meter in Tonal Music: a Glossary is a remarkable collection
of definitions and examples of various features of music that parallel
poetic prosody
--Research
in Metrics: technically sophisticated study of rhythmic interaction
between words and music with downloadable audiovisual supplements
--Reuven
Tsur's papers and sound files provide advanced and highly sophisticated
studies of rhythm, rhyme, and other prosodic features
--Concrete
Poetry: good discussion and bibliography
--Essay
on Quantitative Meter by Michael Helsem
Form and meter in other languages (italicized links are in
English):
An
excellent guide to French poetic forms
French
meter
German
German:
Rudolph Brandmeyer's distinguished site in German poetics
Greek:
ENCHIRIDION of METRICS by Erling B. Holtsmark
Italian
Latin
Latin
(2)
Norse-Icelandic
Finnish
vs. Norse poetry
Old
English*
Old
German
Spanish
*see comment
on
this page
suggestions for additional links. (Links checked 3/16/2002; please
e-mail me if any do not work.)